A Bruit Secret / Pandora’s Box
The secret sound of painting.
A Bruit Secret / Pandora’s Box is a site-specific installation realised in 2010 within the deconsecrated church of San Lorenzo in Poppi, Tuscany.
The work unfolds as a symbolic constellation: ten fresco portraits of modern artists appear on the walls like secular icons, while the central painting occupies the position of the former altar.
Borrowing its title from Marcel Duchamp’s ready-made, the installation functions as a visual koan — a device that suspends interpretation and redirects perception toward what Duchamp once described as the “secret sound.”
Painting here becomes both presence and question: a field in which memory, artistic lineage, and contemporary awareness converge.
